building from source.

[Steve]

---- Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote: 
> Steve,
> 
> RHEL and by consequence CentOS are too far behind in their libraries for 
> GnuCash 2.5.x.
...
> You're in an unfortunate position. You can build 2.4.13 on Centos 6, but 
> that won't get you much further. If you want to contribute in the future 
> (which I thought I understood from your other mail), you need to work on 
> the development branch.
> 
> So the only way forward I see for that is installing something like 
> virtualbox with a distribution that does have recent enough versions of 
> the above mentioned libraries. Almost all other current distros do.
> 
> Sorry for the bad news.

Hmmm... that is bad news. I used to use Fedora but I switched when thay got into the GNOME 3 thing. I guess I could see if they have sorted that out now. I have a Ubuntu box at work but I don't like that either.

Steve